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This is especially true when domestic anti-immigrant sentiment spikes, typically during economic downturns like the one that many regions currently are experiencing.
As an increasing number of international actors fish in the global talent pool in the coming decades, simply reeling in mature talent developed abroad will no longer be viable, particularly given that the source regions for talented people will be those in which skills development is now relatively low.
China’s trade surplus might shrink by half of that amount (with cuts in trade surpluses also spread over other global regions), meaning a shift in Chinese GNP toward internal demand and away from net exports equal to between 5% and 10% of China’s GNP.
Fourth, the world’s poor regions need to be seen as investment opportunities, not as threats or places to ignore.
Recent events in Georgia remind us that resolving the region's "frozen conflicts"- i.e., those in the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, of Transdneistria in Moldova, and Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan - must be a priority.
Mexico has profound security problems in some regions, but it is also a country that just might be on the threshold of a huge political and economic transformation.
But they have become a significant source of information for people in underserved regions such as the Middle East and Africa, where they purvey China’s views and are building sympathetic audiences.
For various reasons, savers have become ascendant across many regions.
The world could continue to close its eyes to global warming and hope for the best: a slightly warmer climate that produces as many winners (on the Siberian, Northern European, and Canadian prairies) as losers (in already-hot regions that become hotter and dryer), and that the Gulf Stream continues warming Europe, the monsoons are not disrupted, and that the Ganges delta is not drowned by stronger typhoons.
After all, local governments often offer tax returns, refunds, and breaks, meaning that the tax burden varies greatly across enterprises, industries, and regions.
Boosting women’s participation further may become even more important as the nature of the military’s tasks changes in many regions.
These regions are trapped in poverty.
Moreover, knowledge-intensive technology has a winner-take-all network effect, whereby hubs seize access to knowledge and power, leaving less-privileged groups, classes, sectors, and regions struggling to compete.
Traditionally, a large majority of the budget has gone either on agriculture or on the development of backward regions.
Water supplies are increasingly under stress in large parts of the world, especially in the world’s arid regions.
However, the precise nature of the water crisis will vary, with different pressure points in different regions.
Many of these effects are being felt most intensely in regions – such as South and Central Asia, or West and East Africa – where security is already fragile.
Indeed, in the industries and regions hit hardest by import competition, years of simmering discontent have now boiled over, fueling support for populists promising to roll back globalization.
Putin’s main objectives now are the removal of Ukraine’s blockade of Moldova’s pro-Russian breakaway region of Transnistria and Ukrainian “federalization” (a euphemism for the Kremlin’s back-door strategy to gain control over the country’s eastern and southern regions).
The Catalonia crisis is a strong hint from history that Europe needs to develop a new type of sovereignty, one that strengthens cities and regions, dissolves national particularism, and upholds democratic norms.
Because of similar ignorance, this terrible epidemic now looms over the former Soviet Union and other regions.
The economically dynamic regions of the world--North America and Asia--are thus linked together in a pact that will ensure the continued centrality of the American dollar.
This is good for Europe, because it helps improve the allocation of capital and stimulates growth by transporting German savings to the remote and previously disadvantaged regions of the euro zone.
To ensure continued momentum, we – the leaders of 14 nations from regions around the world – have formed a network to promote comprehensive reform of the UN.
When Mao and the Chinese Communists came to power in 1949, they promised "reunification of the Motherland," which included bringing Xinjiang (the Muslim desert regions of the West), Tibet, Mongolia, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan back under central government control.
By contrast, Italy’s economically deprived southern regions – where youth unemployment has, in some areas, reached nearly 60% – voted overwhelmingly for the Five Star Movement, which advocates a guaranteed basic income and condemns the corruption of local elites.
So the Russia that George W. Bush will visit is one of post-revolutionary economic stabilization, accompanied by a reactionary struggle against central authority - a struggle waged not by Russia's regions, but by the state's own bureaucrats.
A more development-minded Libya could help dampen tensions in these vital regions.
Internally, Libya has launched a “Go East” policy, so that development does not become clustered only in its oil and gas regions and around the capital of Tripoli.
Both Afghanistan and the neighboring provinces of Pakistan are impoverished regions, with vast unemployment, bulging youth populations, prolonged droughts, widespread hunger, and pervasive economic deprivation.
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